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"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."
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"I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented."
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"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
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"That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable."
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"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."
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"While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace."
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"And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it."
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"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
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"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."
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"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."
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"Sickness awakens sadness sleeps- Moments of aloneness results into peace."
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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
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"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."
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"And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity."
Philosophy
"Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction."
Psychology
"I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began."
Psychology
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."
Happiness
"Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others... but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God "sending us" to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE hell unless it is nipped in the bud."
Philosophy
"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."
Faith
"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."
Psychology
"In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity."
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